Re: [NTG-context] \sf and bigggg fonts

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:

En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit:

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2007/3/7, Aditya Mahajan :

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:

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En/na Aditya Mahajan ha escrit:

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:

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Is it possible to have the equivalent in \sf in context?. I tried \sf and I get an error. Strange because \sl, \bf, etc exist

\ss? (I am not sure what \sf is supposed to be, so just guessing)

\sf is Sans Serif (latex) [\rm roman, \tt typewriter, \sl slanted, \emph empasized, \it italic \bf boldface; see "a not so short intro to latex" for example]

\ss is plain tex's font command for sans serif, and works with context. I do not know why latex chose \sf (sffamily, textsf) instead of ss.

You are wrong, \ss is in plain TeX the command to produce the german ß. There has never been a predefined command to swith to a sans serif font like the corresponding switches for bold and italic.

So, is there any command for that?. How can I get \sf in latex in context?

In ConTeXt, \ss switches to sans serif. What Wolfgang meant (IIUC) was that there is no command in plain tex to switch to sans serif. More details are at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Basic_Text_Formatting Aditya